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Continuing its efforts to improve coverage of religion around the world, ICFJ has launched a two-year program for American and international journalists who cover religious issues. By improving professional skills and increasing the dialogue around religion, ICFJ hopes to encourage journalists to engage the subject more openly and free of bias, and simultaneously more respectfully and critically. The program activities will include two online courses and international joint reporting projects,

The program is designed to:

Improve U.S. and global reporting on social issues related to religion;

Facilitate quality coverage that better educates the American public about the role and nature of religion in cultural, political and economic realms, and ensures that policymakers have the resources to make informed decisions on these issues; and

Provide a strengthened professional body that gives global journalists the resources, skills and support they need to be a respected voice on religious issues in their nations.

This program is made possible by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation.

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Indian journalist Syed Nazakat has received the Christiane Amanpour Award for Religion Reporting for his story in The Week magazine about how Saudi Arabian officials and clerics are using the Koran and other religious texts to rehabilitate Al Qaeda fighters. The International Center for Journalists gives the award in honor of Amanpour, the 2011 winner of its Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism and a model for enlightening coverage of divisive religion issues.

For the story “Reborn in Riyadh,” Nazakat traveled to four Saudi cities.